Warn if frontend package is older than the one in requirements.txt

app/frontend_management.py

@@ -18,12 +18,18 @@
 from comfy.cli_args import DEFAULT_VERSION_STRING
 
 
+def frontend_install_warning_message():
+    req_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'requirements.txt'))
+    extra = ""
+    if sys.flags.no_user_site:
+        extra = "-s "
+    return f"Please install the updated requirements.txt file by running:\n{sys.executable} {extra}-m pip install -r {req_path}\n\nThis error is happening because the ComfyUI frontend is no longer shipped as part of the main repo but as a pip package instead.\n\nIf you are on the portable package you can run: update\\update_comfyui.bat to solve this problem"
+
 try:
     import comfyui_frontend_package
 except ImportError:
     # TODO: Remove the check after roll out of 0.3.16
-    req_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'requirements.txt'))
-    logging.error(f"\n\n********** ERROR ***********\n\ncomfyui-frontend-package is not installed. Please install the updated requirements.txt file by running:\n{sys.executable} -s -m pip install -r {req_path}\n\nThis error is happening because the ComfyUI frontend is no longer shipped as part of the main repo but as a pip package instead.\n\nIf you are on the portable package you can run: update\\update_comfyui.bat to solve this problem\n********** ERROR **********\n")
+    logging.error(f"\n\n********** ERROR ***********\n\ncomfyui-frontend-package is not installed. {frontend_install_warning_message()}\n********** ERROR **********\n")
     exit(-1)
 
 

main.py

@@ -293,14 +293,29 @@ async def start_all():
     return asyncio_loop, prompt_server, start_all
 
 
+def warn_frontend_version(frontend_version):
+    try:
+        required_frontend = (0,)
+        req_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'requirements.txt')
+        with open(req_path, 'r') as f:
+            required_frontend = tuple(map(int, f.readline().split('=')[-1].split('.')))
+        if frontend_version < required_frontend:
+            logging.warning("________________________________________________________________________\nWARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING\n\nInstalled frontend version {} is lower than the recommended version {}.\n\n{}\n________________________________________________________________________".format('.'.join(map(str, frontend_version)), '.'.join(map(str, required_frontend)), app.frontend_management.frontend_install_warning_message()))
+    except:
+        pass
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # Running directly, just start ComfyUI.
     logging.info("ComfyUI version: {}".format(comfyui_version.__version__))
-    logging.info("ComfyUI frontend version: {}".format('.'.join(map(str, app.frontend_management.frontend_version))))
+    frontend_version = app.frontend_management.frontend_version
+    logging.info("ComfyUI frontend version: {}".format('.'.join(map(str, frontend_version))))
 
     event_loop, _, start_all_func = start_comfyui()
     try:
-        event_loop.run_until_complete(start_all_func())
+        x = start_all_func()
+        warn_frontend_version(frontend_version)
+        event_loop.run_until_complete(x)
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         logging.info("\nStopped server")